The KarbineR Way

[karbiner 29]

Hello,

Since I am getting a little bit annoyed by the amount of utterly useless and often pointless opinions of noobs who somehow got their hands on this game, I finnaly deceided to make

a manual for this mod myself. It will not only cover some of the basics, it will also be riddled with my own views and thoughts on this game and on the statements of others.

It will be a manual about longer lifetimes, and higher gains allround. Fun.. is just a totaly other factor, but it sure is present.

Lets just start off with the very basics of this game:

Why have you bought it? This seems to be the main point of many dissapointments. Because there are many topics about people being dissapointed in some way or another, most often

just people who have been shot, blaming every single thing on the shooter. They will state on how peacefull they where minding their own business and BOOOM! out of nowhere comes this

little codkiddie who just kills them. But let me tell you a little secret: Unless its a bug, which also made me swim for a long time once, it will be 100% your own fault if you die.

YOU chose to make a target out of yourself, YOU chose to walk up to people asking them if they are friendly without even realizing if they even speak your language, or wheter they are

scared or not. I am playing this game for way over four months now and I've died 8 to 9 times. Only ONCE I died because of another person who shot me because we crossed paths.

And do you know where we crossed paths? in the good ol Cherno, where I spawned after one of my mates accidently shot me in the face because he was alt-tabbed and impatienlty

clicked himself back into the game, clicking one time to much. Other times it was just zombies raping me because there was a time where even I was new to this great mod.

There really is'nt much to learn from that, only that Cherno, and even the whole coastline, is a place to avoid at any time. Its the rally-point of so many dangers!

Not only are there many armed killers looking for easy kills, there are also people who just died, people who therefor don't care alot since they lost everything. They can go and have

some fun at the coast, like creating zombie-trains and other things which can get YOU killed, and that is what we are here for to avoid.

So lets say you are here to survive, get off that dreadfull beach and head inland immediatly, but don't even think about going into a town just yet. First we need weapons and ammo.

The best way is to look for deerstands, barns and stables, and if you google just 0,001 sec you will find many maps on where to find them. You can get into them without a gun, just

wait long enough for the zombies to make some distance between you and the building, just sneak in, get what you need and get out. I prever quantity over quality because zombies walk

when they are inside buildings, making them very easy to shoot in the face, even with the lowest caliber this game has to offer. Ammo for the "weaker" weapons is also more common

and if it kills it kills does'nt it? Obviously your food management also needs to be in check, but this is not to big of a deal. You will find more food and drinks than you actually need.

The second most important thing of staying alive is cover. Always asume that someone is watching you, or that someone is hearing you. Don't let this sound paranoia but it sure helps.

Knowing the surroundings, which escape routes they offer, knowing the enterable buildings and barns before you head into town, these are all very important if you get in contact with

either zeds or other survivors. Imagine a zed sees you, you will know the enterable buildings since you observed the town, you will know which one is closest. When you make it inside its

just a matter of easy headshotting untill the threat is gone. Where zeds are quite easy, some survivors are not, but if they manage somehow to mis you, never go prone. HEAR where

the shots are comming from, MOVE in a way that puts as much obstacles between you and the shooter, just EVERYTHING to avoid his line of fire. In my opinion the ditches and downhill routes

are the best. If you manage to get behind a hill you will gain the upper hand on your attacker. You can now deceide to either flank left or right, or to wait for him to come after you

if he is dumb enough. If the shooter was very close, just lob your nades over the hill in his general direction, if you happen to have some nades ofcourse.

But whatever you do, never disconnect, hold your honour. Some days ago I was up against 2 guys in the pitch black night. They where drawn to my flares and they went looking for me.

Since I heard their car I was ready and prepared in an ambush position to take their lifes. I peaked arround the tree I was hiding behind and I could see 2 guys, I shot one of them, the

other one fled the scene and disconnected. I had gained: NVG's, GPS, binoculars, matches, an axe, a L85 TWS, the big coyote backpack and some other stuff which makes it a neat loot.

Some call it a walking simulator and it sure is 95% of the time, but it are the 5%'s that are counting, after that engagement I was shaking and cheering of joy!

You can choose the more boring way to survive for a very long time, making it 100% walking, or sitting in this case. Just get a map,compass,hatchet,matches, any backpack and

all the canteens you can carry and go into the bushes near a lake/pond. Just axemurder some animals for food and drink water from the ponds and just sit in the bushes without ever

having to go downtown while you are ranking to the #1 spot on the leaderboards of "Alive Survivors".

Which brings me on to the next point, named the PvP and the horse-shit surrounding it. Just imagine a server without PvP, joy of joy will that be great, your noobbrain will be thinking.

But if there is no loss, due to death, there will only be gain. You WILL arrive at a point where you have EVERYTHING the mod has to offer, and now what? just fuck arround? You can already

do that in the games editor, just place all the vehicles you want, and go fuck arround in those. Hell I've played Arma 2 since its release date and 90% of the time I used it as

a flight-simulator, flying arround in choppers all day since I liked to do so. The VERY big point (and essence) of this game is to give you fear, the fear of loosing it all, which makes

this mod so great. If you don't like that, dont judge the game and just fuck off and play another game.

Which brings me to the next point, named the CoD-kiddies and the horse-shit surrounding it. To start with, they don't even exist. Dayz can't even be compared to CoD.

I once killed 3 survivors and fucking hell I did'nt get my killstreak, which proves my point. The term was emerged from the very noobs (possibly even playing COD themselves) who came

to this game, thinking that it is all about teaming up and being in Cherno (great line by a great person) Boy where they wrong. Ofcourse you can team up, do so with mates you KNOW, and

mates you can keep in contact with the WHOLE time via a voice server. Don't feel bad if you killed someone, they made a target out of themself, they deserve it. Hell I even made some

great friends by just shooting them! And just because everyone shoots you DOES NOT mean that there are no big groups, you can find alot of them on the forums, although the smarter

onces stay away from that, since openly recruiting on the forums is a great way to get backstabbers in your communities.

Also don't bother about save-zones, people WILL get in and they WILL ruin your shitty save-zone.

Killing happens, wheter it is self defence or some bob sniping in the hills over Cherno, it will happen, its up to you to put on your sun-glasses and deal with it.

Also, for a little fact, I am a Cod-player myself. Although I play the older Cod4 I still play it on a daily basis, problem?

My final point is about 3rd-vs-1st person. I personally think 3rd person is a bit pathetic, being able to look over and arround walls without physically putting your head over/arround it.

I have seen many dayz footage of people who go prone when in danger, and when they finaly aim, they will only see grass, because they are not part of the surroundings, which may

lead to pathetic cover and even death. Also the amount of time it takes to aim fast is way longer then when you are already in 1st person. In 1st person your view will be lower to

the ground, which makes you more aware of all the angles and it will improve your aim drasticly. Ofcourse, when you prefer 1st person never go to servers which have 3rd person on so

that you are equal to all the others in the server. It might be harder to spot others, but others will also have more trouble spotting you, which is saver if you really think about it.

And ofcourse, when you spot something you'll know immediatly wheter you are a easy target or not because you have more POV than when you are in some invisible camera floating behind you.

If you get sick of the moving screen just go to the game options and lower the "head bobbing" etc etc.

And the biggest tip of tips: Don't be a blittering idiot and LEARN or ADJUST the controlls of this game into your liking!

This about sums up my way of playing and how I look at this game, I am sure I forgot to add some things and I am sure there will be people who will disagree with me on some points

and they are completely allowed to do so, hopefully proving more of my statements. I also don't care if you call me the whinebox, I wont sleep any minute shorter because of that.

If you want to own me in a Cod4 pcw feel free to contact me, as long as you are above med+ skill since I dont want to waste my time (promod211 server:ON not cracked btw)

I do apologize to the way it has been written. English is not my native language which makes it a bit harder for me to type everything in a more interesting way.

Yes I am aware there might be some grammar errors, but talking proper English is a whole other business.

Also feel free to ask whatever you like :)

KarbineR-

[permaphrost 12]

Also feel free to ask whatever you like

Okay.

Who taught you to type like that? They should be slapped mercilessly.

I see you're from Holland, so forgive me if English isn't your first language. Seriously though, L2format.

Edited July 21, 2012 by Permaphrost

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

I'm gonna read through the rest of it now but I just wanted to point out that starting the first paragraph "Why have you bought it?" is wrong. No one has bought it. This is one of the reasons noobs feel entitled to whine about bugs.

Sorry for being anal, I'll read the rest now. Cool project.

[karbiner 29]

Okay.

Who taught you to type like that? They should be slapped mercilessly.

I see you're from Holland, so forgive me if English isn't your first language. Seriously though, L2format.

Not until I see you typing Dutch without grammar issues ;)

Edited July 21, 2012 by KarbineR

[DarkRaven123 602]

In the end we will just lose all the the "whiner/codkiddy/etc" playerbase to The War Z.

Its the softcore version of this game, and that is what they are marketing it for, hence it being on console.

[flawlesssoul 30]

Since I am getting a little bit annoyed by the amount of utterly useless and often pointless opinions of noobs who somehow got their hands on this game,

I stopped reading here, since you need to stop posting here.

No-one is forcing you to read any post on this forum, but these newbies might read quite a few threads when they first start playing DayZ. I have no doubt that not only will the formatting of your post give a few of them nervous breakdowns, but the content of your post is bordering on vitriolic stupidity and reads like an autobiography at times. Any newbies that did read this post might decide to take it seriously, in part or whole.

Also, learn the difference between newbie and noob. A new player is a newbie, you are a noob.

Edited July 21, 2012 by Nimrod

[karbiner 29]

I am both actually. A noob in formatting and a newbie to formatting in English.

EDIT: Now I see the problem, to much , and not enough .. Also ENTERS on the wrong places.

I typed this all in notepad which forced me to press ENTER on alot of wrong places.

I can see the point and yet again I apoligize for it :)

Edited July 21, 2012 by KarbineR

[myskaal 50]

Unfortunately, your post is more than 1 sentence with 4 words in it. None of the people you are needing it to reach will make it past "Hello,"

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

I think I prefer the Fraggle way. Good luck.

[simjedi 43]

Not enough CoD-Kiddies references used, so none of my beans for that.

Pretty much agree with you about everything except the 3P perspective because ArmA has some pretty bad collision detection IMO. But that doesn't offset the rest of the argument so you can have some beans for it!

Edited July 21, 2012 by SIMJEDI